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Cannondale has brought a few concepts to market that have since become accepted industry standards. Cannondale was the first to produce a crankset that uses externally mounted bottom bracket bearings, though they later discontinued this design. External bearings are now the most common type of bottom bracket for mid-level and higher bicycles.
Mountain Bike Rally, also released as Cannondale Cup in North America, is a bicycle racing video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by ASC Games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994.
Cannondale station is a commuter rail station on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in the Cannondale neighborhood of Wilton, Connecticut. The station building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 as part of the Cannondale Historic District .
Dessalines (French pronunciation:; Haitian Creole: Desalin) usually referred to as Marchand-Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Machan Desalin), is a commune in the Artibonite department of Haiti. It is named after Jean-Jacques Dessalines , a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler and emperor of independent Haiti.
Soldiers ambushed Dessalines in Pont-Rouge under orders from a clique of Africans and mulattoes, among them his friend Alexandre Pétion. Dessalines was shot, stabbed, stripped, and had his fingers cut off. His corpse was brought to Port-au-Prince, where it was stoned by crowds and said to resemble "scraps" and "shapeless remains". [14]
A tomb was raised by Étienne Gérin's wife with the inscription: Ci-git Dessalines, mort à 48 ans ("Here lies Dessalines, died at 48 years old"). [34] Dessalines' body was later moved to the Autel de la Patrie (Altar of the Nation) in the Champs-de-Mars alongside Pétion's body. A monument at the northern entrance of the Haitian capital marks ...
Schwinn sold an impressive 1.5 million bicycles in 1974, but would pay the price for failing to keep up with new developments in bicycle technology and buying trends. With their aging product line, Schwinn failed to dominate the huge sport bike boom of 1971–1975, which saw millions of 10-speed bicycles sold to new cyclists. [ 8 ]
what Toussaint, Dessalines, Christophe, Pétion did to take Haitians from under the whites' rope. For Haiti on the behalf of the Ancestors Let us raise our head and look above. Let everyone to ask the Lord to grant us protection that the evil angels may not divert us, that we may walk in the right path. For liberty to be able to liberate,